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Samsung brings new SSD with 3D V-NAND

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Sanghamitra Kar
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: Samsung Electronics has launched the 850 PRO, a new solid state drive (SSD) line-up featuring Samsung's three-dimensional (3D) vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory technology.

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The new Samsung 850 PRO, will be available globally across 53 markets from this month.

Based on Samsung's proprietary V-NAND technology, the new 850 PRO is for use in high-end PCs and workstations. Samsung's V-NAND features a proprietary vertical cell structure and overcomes the density limit currently facing planar NAND architecture used in conventional flash memory, yielding speed, endurance and energy efficiency improvements.

"With the new 850 PRO V-NAND SSD, Samsung is introducing the next major evolution of SSD technology, taking the lead in delivering high-density SSDs with outstanding endurance, performance and energy efficiency," said Unsoo Kim, senior vice president of branded product marketing team at Samsung Electronics. "We are fully committed to establishing an innovative computing environment by providing customers with leading-edge V-NAND SSDs with unrivaled performance."

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Its using the SATA III (6Gb/s) interface and its sequential read performance reaches up to 550 megabytes per second (MB/s), with write performance of up to 520MB/s.

Random read performance is up to 100,000 input/output operations-per-second (IOPS), with write speeds of up to 90,000 IOPS.

The drive also offers a Dynamic Thermal Guard feature, which maintains ambient temperature while operating and prevents potential data loss from overheating.

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The Samsung 850 PRO will be available in 128 gigabyte (GB), 256GB, 512GB and 1 terabyte (TB) storage capacities.

 

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